I remember hearing a tale from a friend as a boy, about how his public boy’s schools headmaster and the next door public girls school Headmistress had had some kind of rivalry and decided to bring it to an end by having a sports competition. The boys Headmaster had been so confident of victory that he had let the girls choose the game, so they choose a game of netball to all the boys disappointment.

The best part of this tale was that the Girls Mistress so confident about winning the game of netball against a bunch of boys suggested a forfeit to the losing team, the Headmaster agreed and the Mistress suggested that if the boys lost she would punish the entire boys side by giving them all six of the best with the headmasters cane, and as they were all so confident the girls agreed that if they lost each girl would be given six of the best by the boys headmaster with the headmistresses slipper.

unbelievably the boys won by one point, and each girl was spanked by the boys headmaster with their own girlschool slipper, in front of the entire population of both schools.

I didn’t believe him, but it was a nice idea however I met a girl years later who went the girls school in question and when I mentioned the incident to her she blushed and admitted to having been on the girls team.

has anyone else heard any such urban myths or know of any incidents of C.P. being used as forfeit for school sports competition.

 

I hope you all realise that I didn’t and still don’t believe the tall tale this little boy told me way back then. However it’s interesting to think that that little boy back then when we were about 12 or 13 was not actually meaning to tell me a spanking fantasy, but was in fact trying to impress me with the idea that the boys at his school were such great athletes that the girls next door were literally beaten at their own game.

However that dosn’t explain why over ten years later a friend of a girlfriend should confirm the story, however she could well have had her own agenda, who knows? I do partially blame it for my interest.

My question is was this an urban myth? was it something he had heard about another school, or did he make it up on the spot? if anyone has heard this story before or any other school discipline related urban myths please reply.

I remember a story I heard which I assume was something of a urban myth. The story centered around a school in stockport, which is quite close to where I live in Cheshire. The school might well have been ‘Stockport Grammar school’ but I really can’t remember the details that well. Anyway the story goes, during the early sixties at the time of the mods and rockers, a schoolgirl found herself being seduced by the leader of the local Rocker gang. The Rocker in question proceeded to ride up and down the main street of Stockport flying the poor girls lost knickers from his motorbike’s handlebars like a medal of honor, and bringing terrible shame on the school reputation.

Anyway the headmaster determined to find out which of his girls had been indulging in sexual activity with the local yob, carried out a knicker inspection of the entire upper school. This was done in full view of the main street, gaining quite an audience from passers by as well as the rocker gang still in possession of the famous knickers. When eventually one girl was found to be bare bottomed, she was subsequently thrashed with the cane by the Headmaster then and there in full view of the by now very large crowd, to the cheers and howls of the bike-gang.

I assume if it really happened which I doubt, someone in Stockport must have at least heard of this incident, Or perhaps this was purely another urban myth, either way I would love to know, if it is familiar to anyone.

PS the person who told me as far as I know did not have a spanking fetish, this story just came about whilst we discussed our school days.

 

I agree this is a fascinating issue. I think we should not underestimate how deeply embedded a lot of this stuff is in the culture. Even if people had no experience of CP at school themselves, they will almost certainly have seen many allusions to it in the media. I have noticed the same thing in relation to judicial CP. The birch was abolished in the 1940s but the cry “bring back the birch” continued to echo through most of the rest of the 20th century, and while people may not have agreed with it they always understood what it meant and recognised where it came from. They even, no doubt unwittingly, used almost identical phraseology in writing to their local newspapers calling for the return thereof.
Likewise, a child of the 1970s or even 1980s will probably have seen endless references to CP in earlier or even more recent times in TV serials, films, books, comics, Beano, Dickens, Tom Brown, Grange Hill, Billy Bunter, and so on and on. I suspect it takes at least 2 generations for this kind of thing to fade from the collective memory – maybe longer. Personally, this suits me fine!